Celebrations, Festivals & Migratory Patterns

Tofino, British Columbia


January
 
    New Year's Eve on the Beach
   
    Peak Winter Storm    
 
  February      
    Mermaid tails & Writers Festival
(a monthly event in winter months, call 250-725-2125 for more details)
   
 
  March      
    Whale Festival, mid-March to early-April -- Every spring, the world population of Pacific Grey Whales migrate along the west coast of Vancouver Island. Annually an estimated 19,000 Greys make the 16,000 km trip from their mating and calving lagoons on the Baja peninsula of northern Mexico to their summer feeding grounds in the Berlin and Chukchi seas off Alaska and Siberia.    
    Wildside Readers & Writers Festival continues...    
         
         
 
  April      
    Thousands of shorebirds fly though Tofino area    
         
    Shorebird Festival Late April and early May    
 
  May      
         
    Happy Mothers Day    
    Rhododendrons in bloom    
 
  June      
    Annual Golf Tournaments    
    Edge to Edge Maratho    
 
  July      
    Pacific Rim Summer Music Festival    
    Canada Day Celebration at the Village Green    
 
  August      
    Long summer days, guaranteed sunshine    
    Great Whale Watching all Summer long      
 
  September      
    Grey Whales begin southern migration    
 
  October      
    Prime mushroom picking season    
 
  November      
    Clayoquot Oyster Growers Festival, November    
    Winter Storm Season begins    
 
  December      
         
         
 


 
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